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.TH SPELL 1 .SH NAME spell, sprog \- find spelling errors .SH SYNOPSIS .B spell [ .I options ] \&... [ .I file ] \&... .PP .B aux/sprog [ .I options ] [ .B -f .I file ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Spell looks up words from the named .I files (standard input default) in a spelling list and places possible misspellings\(emwords not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output. .PP .I Spell ignores constructs of .IR troff (1) and its standard preprocessors. It understands these options: .TP .B -b Check British spelling. .TP .B -v Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with derivations. .TP .B -x Print on standard error, marked with .LR = , every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list, along with its affix classes. .PP As a matter of policy, .I spell does not admit multiple spellings of the same word. Variants that follow general rules are preferred over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is more common. Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'. Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard' cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard' (adjective). .SH FILES .TF \fL/sys/lib/brspell .TP .B /sys/lib/amspell American spelling list .TP .B /sys/lib/brspell British spelling list .TP .B /bin/aux/sprog The actual spelling checker. It expects one word per line on standard input, and takes the same arguments as .IR spell . .SH SOURCE .TF /sys/src/cmd/spell .TP .B /rc/bin/spell the script .TP .B /sys/src/cmd/spell source for .I sprog .SH SEE ALSO .IR deroff (1) .SH BUGS The heuristics of .IR deroff (1) used to excise formatting information are imperfect. .PP The spelling list's coverage is uneven; in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and perforce proper names, not to mention languages other than English, are covered very lightly.